Tag Archives: Ohio Hip Hop

Onslaught of Columbus rap today. as META4CE delivers ignorance on “Ignorant”. Meta4ce proclaims in the intro that “he hates everyone” and then proceeds to sound like he means it. He actually spells “Ignorant” in the hook between lines about “not caring about the recession because he been broke” and adlibs about check scams. Seriously, this level of hostility coupled with an even flow has been missing in Columbus rap for sometime.

This is the best Meta4ce song I have heard in a long time.. Please listen and encourage him to keep on this direction. 10/10 and I don’t even give ratings.

While bumping this banger, I decided to sift through some footage Path and I shot when I interviewed Rawls for the Other Paper back in May of 2011. In the below footage shot in Rawls home, J explains how he got his start in both making music, and in putting records out. It’s pretty interesting as his Hip Hop story starts in 1987 with him and friends stealing his fathers records. J. Rawls ,then, tells us how he ended up linking up with Greyhound Bus traveling Talib Kweli in 95.96 and eventually started putting his records out during the late 90’s Hip Hop boom with his group the Lone Catalysts.

I am still working on what the fuck I am gonna write about this Columbus Hip Hop classic from 1999 that Bru Lei just put on soundcloud. Until then I am drinking a fucking beer and enjoying myself. AS YOU SHOULD.:

When discussing Ohio Hip Hop, often times we forget to bring up the Dave Hammonz of Cinci, Dose One, whose creative seed in Southwest Ohio when Anticon was just burgeoning was an interesting thing to witness. Between his work with Them, and Cloud Dead also the graffiti of my dude Fiveit never suprises me that Marcel Duchamp’s wife was from the Nasty Nati.

Fly Union comes with a Jay Swifa produced beauty The Hard Way. Also peep Fly Union’s interview with Karmaloop, where the Columbus rap group discuss TGTC, the pro and cons of going the indie, cologne in the studio and also accidently meeting the GZA in NYC.

I reviewed Maybe I’m Joking in the Other Paper. I obviously liked it ’cause, “Zero’s flow is complex and refined, and his content is reflective, funny and wise in a subtle way. In this and other cuts, Chozin beats have the right amount of jazz, boom-bap and experimental elements to keep things harmonic with all those bars flying around.”

Dove of De La Soul said he was “Sick of half-ass awards shows/Sick of name brand clothes/Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks/Cocaine and crack Which brings sickness to blacks/” back in 1996 on Stakes Is High.